What was your favorite topic at UNI?

Hi, I have just been accepted into a Psychology degree where will be studying psychology as my major then any electives I want from anywhere in the uni as long as I meant any conditions for that topic.

My course co-ordinator said that the 1st year can be a lot of "fun" and to pick a good range of topics that I might enjoy and then get more serious in 2nd and 3rd year.

This made me wonder about the definition of fun

What topics did you enjoy?

I have picked An introduction to animal behavior, An introduction to political ideas and policy, An intro to sociology, an intro to biodiversity and conservation and I am still deciding on an intro to Australian justice system as the only lecture on starts soon after school does and it might not work so might have to pick something else, I wanted to do human resources but it is only on in semester 1 and clashes with my psych classes.

I agree that sociology and politics will both give you a lot of mental stimulation, and be useful down the track in life. You could also consider anthropology, if your uni offers it. But what are your other interests? You could learn a language, dabble in science, whatever you want!

ETA: My favourite random elective subjects (over many years of uni, several separate quals) were from the following areas: anthropology, public health policy, gender studies, peace studies, health sociology, and epidemiology.

I did a unit in the history and philosophy of science, which looked at the relationship between questions of faith and science over the last thousand years or so. It was brilliant. (And not entirely irrelevant to psychology, either).

I would like to do an art history subject but they are restricted to creative art students I might be able to ask and try to get in, thank you for all the replies, I am doing an undergrad so will most likely do a cert once my degree is finished to specialize in a particular area that I find the most fitting, I am hoping to get a good taste of a wide range of subjects during this degree, I like the idea of environmental science and ecology but I don't think I would enjoy the "field work" but I guess I will find out as one of the topics I have chosen has a one week field trip lol

I originally thought I might like counselling or human resources or recruiting but I am going to keep my options open, hopefully do some work experience in different places and just take each step as it comes, its a big deal for me to have got into the degree, 1st one in my generation in my family to get into uni

I did all psych courses, but I did a combined degree so not many choices anyway since I had to fit in subjects for two degrees. Have you looked at later year courses you might want to do? I found myself stuck with very few choices in my last year as I didn't have the prerequisite first year courses for many subjects.

I did a unit in the history and philosophy of science, which looked at the relationship between questions of faith and science over the last thousand years or so. It was brilliant. (And not entirely irrelevant to psychology, either).

Ha we are reversed. I did a unit in religion (loved it), in my science degree. Also did philosophy of science.

I didn't get an option to choose electives in my undergrad, but my favourite unit over the 4 years was neuroscience.

While I was still deciding what to do with my life, I did a year of a Biology degree and the intro animal and plant biology units were fascinating (you need to be prepared to kill and dissect things for animal biol, wouldn't recommend it if you're squeamish).

I did a midwifery degree, but my favourite subjects were the anatomy and Physiology ones. They were probably the hardest content wise as it was a big workload, but it was fascinating and I absolutely loved them. I only did one elective subject in my course, and chose Palliative care. I thoroughly enjoyed that though as it was really interesting seeing life in a totally different viewpoint.

For me- the teaching staff played a huge role in which subjects I really enjoyed and which I didn't.

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